- I'm going through TSA. Hey, how are you doing? Heading to Atlanta? Check out the Coca-Cola factory. Hey Vegas, always
double down on 11! Hello, I'm Shane Mauss with
the "Here we Are" podcast and the "Mind Under
Matter" podcast. And this is the time
I took mystery drugs before getting on an airplane. I had finished this
psychedelic comedy tour. It was 111 cities. After this tour, I'm getting ready for a
flight to a comedy club, and I pull something
out of a drawer and something falls out. And it's this little
medicine bottle with two mystery capsules in it. And so I was like, well,
only one way to find out. And I popped one of those
capsules in my mouth and then started
driving to the airport. This is the point already you should be probably
gasping at home. You did what? You just took a mystery capsule? Do I need to give a
disclaimer for this story? Is anyone watching this like, maybe I'll pop mystery capsules
and drive to an airport? Why would you do that? Why did I do this? I have no idea. I was just in a mood. And I pull in, and I start
feeling a little something. I haven't felt this
feeling before. It's quite nice. Is this 2C-B? Oh my gosh, that's what it is. In the psychedelic culture,
kind of a mythical psychedelic. Here's why. There's this chemist,
Alex Shulgin. Alex Shulgin starts
making novel psychedelics that no one had
ever tried before. He had about 10,000 trips. He invented about 180
new good psychedelics. Those were just the
ones that he liked. And 2C-B was his favorite. I'm on 2C-B for the first time, and now I'm going to
go into the airport. And that's when it hits me. The other description
that 2C-B has is that it is quite
manageable for a psychedelic. So of course I pop
that other capsule. And then I'm off, and I go. And I'm just in such
a delightful mood. By the way, this is
how either the best or the worst drug
story starts or ends. Do I need to tell you
again not to do this? When I'm not on stage,
when I'm not on camera, when I'm not podcasting,
I don't talk to anyone. I was the shyest
kid you'd ever meet. I'm going through TSA. Hey, how are you doing? Heading to Atlanta? Check out the Coca-Cola factory. Hey Vegas, always
double down on 11! Somehow I've turned
into Vince Vaughn on the movie "Swingers." The plants in the airport have
never looked so almost real. Not to mention that
this is an aphrodisiac. I'm half aroused, and just
throwing myself a parade. I rode on an escalator. I realized I hadn't rode on
an escalator in my adult life. I've been on thousands
of escalators probably, but I haven't
ridden an escalator since I was three years old where I was at an
amusement park. You're on 2C-B
for the first time where you probably had twice
what you're supposed to take and you're on an escalator, you don't know
what's gonna happen. I take the long step over the part where
it tries to eat you. Not today, scary robot steps! I get on the plane. Now it's keeping it cool time,
'cause you're on a plane. Planes can make
emergency landings just because they get a whiff of someone did a vape
pen or something. I'm one of the happiest
people on earth in one of the most
miserable places on earth. How does that not alert anybody? And I get in there and there's a guy already
in the aisle seat. And I'm like, hey, I'm
in the window seat. And he just does a
little scooch, just
a little scooch back. Under any other circumstance, I would've been like,
first time flying? You know, like you need
to actually get up, and then I get in there,
and then you get back down. But because I was on 2C-B, I'm like (gasping), I
get to crawl a person? This is amazing. He didn't know what he was
gonna get crawling over his lap. That he was just like,
I'm committed to this. And I'm like, who is? That's a power move. So I just closed my eyes and
watched the best plane movie that's ever been
shown on any plane. It was right behind my eyelids. It was a fantastic flight. I'm re-remembering how
magical and amazing flying is. Plane comes down
couple hours later. I'm starting to come down to. Immediately, I was like, okay. I'll just wait for,
now he's gotta. He's gotta get up
now, we're deboarding. And guess what happens? Is they bring his
wheelchair out. The man was in a wheelchair. He couldn't walk,
he couldn't get up. I was almost the biggest
asshole that there's ever been, demanding that a
handicap man stand. Instead, I just got a good
climb going, and we high fived. It taught me to just
have more patience. And sometimes in situations,
you don't know the full context and maybe you should
give people more credit because there might be
information that you don't have. And that's when I realized
that because of 2C-B, finally at 37 years old,
I was all grown's up, and all grown's up,
and all grown's up.
